Alvarez appeared in court Wednesday, where Broward Judge John Hurley described the defendant's dumb plan.

"You allegedly went into that pawn shop and removed an AK-47 rifle on display and stuck it down your pants," Hurley said, reading from an arrest report. "After a while, [you] pulled it out, put it back, then grabbed another assault rifle off another display [and] put that down your pants."

Although the circumstances of Alvarez's arrest are silly, stolen guns are a serious threat to law enforcement.

Earlier this month, New York authorities cracked down on illegal firearms after investigators learned that an NYPD officer killed in the line of duty was shot with a revolver stolen from a Georgia pawn shop. Police also busted a high-volume gun trafficking ring this spring that allegedly ran guns into New York City from Maine, Connecticut and upstate New York.

"This is the way that criminals get guns that they use to murder police officers and murder other New Yorkers,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said at a press conference on May 6, after the crime ring bust. "People who do this for a living, we will pursue as aggressively as we can."

Alvarez was held on $25,000 bond for grand theft and the violation of a domestic violence injunction.

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Powell is accused of running naked around a Florida apartment complex in February, 2012. A police report on Powell's arrest notes that, ""Statements from the defendant were not possible as he would only state he loved cocaine and needed more cocaine."